🖋 Feb 17 - The CB of Russia announced in late December that it would be testing out its state-backed cryptocurrency within a regulatory sandbox. It appears that the tests are now over and have been completed.
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🖋 Feb 17 - A group of international Telegram Open Network (TON) contributors have submitted a court document criticizing United States regulators’ line of attack against the project.
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🖋 Feb 19 - Clifton Collins, who stands accused of drug dealing, lost 56 million USD in BTC after the Irish court ruled that they were proceeds from illegal activities and ordered to confiscate them.
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🖋 Feb 19 - South Korean technology giant Samsung recently unveiled its latest smartphone series, the Galaxy S20, at the Unpacked 2020 event in San Francisco. Cryptocurrency functionality has been kept.
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🖋 Feb 19 - At 21:00 UTC on Wednesday, Bitcoin was trading at $10,146, and by 21:45 UTC, it had dropped to its intraday low of $9,379, i.e. a loss of $767 in value in less than one hour.
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🖋 Feb 20 - According to a memo released by Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis on behalf of the European Commission, the Libra Association has fallen short in its responses to questions from the EU.
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🖋 Feb 21 - The Swedish Central Bank will establish a test group for its potential digital currency – the e-krona. It will run for a year and should confirm if there’s an actual need case for launching a digital krona.
